[Sugar-devel] Design help needed for web applications within Sugar

[Eben Eliason]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Lucian
Branescu<lucian.branescu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/11 Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>:
>> On 08/11/2009 12:14 PM, Lucian Branescu wrote:
>>>
>>> In fact, there is the option to install the SSB activity as well,
>>> http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/317039/create%20ssb.png
>>
>> Yes seen that.
>>
>>> rgs on IRC suggested that the 'Keep in Journal' button could either
>>> save an offline version by itself or there could be a drop down with
>>> several options.
>>
>> Do you mean the activity keep button? Like the one in Write - where we have
>> the options to save a richt text format or others? If yes - yeah that sounds
>> like a good option actually.
>
> I'll go ahead and try to implement that, then.
>
>>
>>> About modifying SSBs, right now all the tools for modification are
>>> inside the actul activity. I'd like to see modification of userscripts
>>> and userstyles done in 'View Source' (as well).
>>
>> Oh, yeah view source. Sounds interesting to me, too. We just need to make
>> sure to not overload it. I mean editing text is easy. When it comes to
>> changing the icon it gets more complicated, though.
>
> Perhaps the Sugar shell should allow users to change activity icons?

It's an unfortunate fact that there is no activity suitable for
creating SVG icons for Sugar. We need a "Draw" activity to fill this
gap and compliment Paint...

> In any case, View Source already has Document view and Bundle view. We
> could either expand Document view to have a TreeView on the left like
> Bundle view or create a separate Editables view.

I hesitate to overload the view source mechanism this way, actually.
Should we instead be providing a seamless mechanism for modifying
code, icons, etc. with other activities, so that users (eventually)
have choices regarding their editors? View source is a logical step in
the process, so we should certainly expose the ability to launch into
editing from there, of course. I suppose an alternative argument can
be made for the level of integration we could provide when editing
within the view source dialog. If we could hook it up to have
"real-time" effect on the running activity, so that making a change
couldbe tested right away, that may make it worth doing...

Eben

>>
>> Regards,
>>   Simon
>>
>